In this post, I will display what decks were the most successful, and then my thoughts on those decks. Without further ado:
Top 2:
2 Wind-Ups
Top 4:
2 Wind-Ups
Mermail
Karakuri
Top 8:
2 Wind-Ups
2 Mermail
1 Karakuri
1 Fire Fist
1 Dark World
1 Macro Rabbit
Top 16:
5 Wind-Up
4 Macro Rabbit
4 Mermails
1 Fire Fist
1 Karakuri
1 Dark World
I'm not going to display Top 32 since I don't have the exact statistics, but from what I understand, the other 16 decks mainly consisted of Mermails and Wind-Ups.
I'm not going to discuss Wind-Ups thoroughly because they will lose a lot of power on March 1st, but they will still be playable. Just lots of broken stuff...
Mermails are clearly a great deck; it's been like this since they were released. Now there are 2 variants of Mermail decks as well. The first variant is the classic Genex Undine version. The other variant removes the Genex Cards and swaps them with Mermail cards from the Cosmo Blazer, and Mermail Abysslunge as well, from Abyss Rising. That's besides the point, though. Mermails have a great match-up against Fire Fists, along with any deck not maining Macro Cosmos.
Speaking of Macro Cosmos, Macro Dino-Rabbit had quite the showing in the top results, even though it didn't reach Top 4. This deck has a good match-up against Mermails and Fire Fists, because of Macro, along with Laggia and .Dollka. The only dominant decks that don't have an issue with Macro are Karakuri... and Wind-Ups.
Fire Fists have finally attended in their first YCS, and they certainly didn't overwhelm the competition. Everyone was prepared for them, and knew how to take them down. Water is Super Effective against Fire. The general consensus seems to believe Water has a good match-up against Fire Fists, which would makes sense. Also, Macro Rabbit does make this deck bleed a little, largely because of Macro.
On to the one Karakuri deck that made Top 4... I'm curious of what variant is was. I want to guess that it was a Macro variant, though I could be mistaking. Regardless, this deck has an OTK nature as well, and the monsters are usually big enough to destroy the Fire Fists, with all of their Fire Formation boosts.
The final deck I will discuss is Dark World. I despise the deck with a passion, however, the player may have known what he was doing. Mind Crush is either a discard outlet, or good against Mermails, Fire Fists and Wind-Ups; and more broken with Dragged Down and all of their virus traps. Deck Devastation Virus hurts Wind-Ups and Mermails, while Eradicator Epidemic Virus hurts everything. Finally, Card Destruction is broken. This deck might be two-dimensional, require little skill to master, and be hated by the majority of the community, but it was a good call for the event.
And that's it. This is the last YCS to take place in North America before this format ends. The event could provide good insight to the start of the next format, though, if you exclude Wind-Ups of course.
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